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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. Ehcache vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB vs. ObjectBox

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NameCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.30
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.couchbase.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.couchbase.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.nuodb.comdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperCouchbase, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCirconus LLC.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20112009201720132017
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20233.10.0, March 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangJavaC and C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
JCacheHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++noyes, in LuaJava, SQLno
Triggersyes infovia the TAP protocolyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic ShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerAutomatic, metric affinity per nodedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta Serverconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoEphemeral bucketsyesnoyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.nonoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes
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Couchbase infoOriginally called MembaseEhcacheIRONdbNuoDBObjectBox
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